His liberal politics, inspired by the safety nets of the New Deal, were shaped in working-class mining country.

Pat Williams, a former Montana schoolteacher who became a liberal voice in the House for nine terms, championing wilderness protections and defending the National Endowment for the Arts from ...

Pat Williams, a New Deal-style Democrat who won Montana's great liberal-conservative showdown of 1992 to become the state's lone voice in the U.S. House of Representatives, has died. He was 87.

Longtime Montana politician U.S. Rep. John Patrick "Pat" Williams, 87, of Missoula, died Wednesday. The former Democratic legislator, and the last Democrat Montana elected to the U.S. House of ...

Pat Williams, who safeguarded arts funding in Congress, dies at 87. The Montana Democrat served nine terms in the House, where he helped protect the National Endowment for the Arts during the ...

Pat Williams, a New Deal-style Democrat who won Montana's great liberal-conservative showdown of 1992 to become the state's lone voice in the U.S. House of Representatives, has died.

Pat Williams, a New Deal-style Democrat who won Montana's great liberal-conservative showdown of 1992 to become the state's lone voice in the U.S. House of Representatives, has died. He was 87. He ...